Prop 8 (Gay Marriage Ban) Passes…

Prop 8, for those of you living under rocks, was a recent ballot proposition in California to amend the state Constitution to ban same-sex (I’ll call it “gay”, cuz it’s just clearer) marriage.  Basically, if you’re FOR gay marriage, you’d vote NO.  Understood?  Fine, but it goes much deeper.

Apparently for the California State Constitution, a simple majority of votes is enough to pass the amendment.  The people voted and by a slim margin, Prop 8 passed.  That is, NO gay marriage in California.  Way to go, guys, now the Constitution is a vehicle for discrimination AND the religious nuts had their say…. so much for Church and State being separate.

I’m not really sure how to interpret this whole issue or the outcome.  Simply stated, I’m all for any two, three or however many people that find love and security or whatever in one other’s lives to have the right to be together, live together or whatever.  If two women want to be together as a couple, fine by me (please send me video!!), and same for two men (I’ll pass on this video).  Really, I believe that two adults of whatever persuasion should have the same hospital visitation rights, tax breaks, health benefits, etc… as you or me or your neighbor and our respective spouses.  Jeez, what’s the problem?

Leave out sheep and/or children and definitely MY kids and I think that ‘consenting adults’ are big enough to make their own decisions about who they want to partner with, and they should reap the same ‘rewards’ the totally failed and ridiculous institution of marriage offers.  Sure, I AM a married person, but it’s a pathetically arcane institution and, in its present state, is a complete failure and it’s only going to get worse and worse, but that’s another entry.

So, Prop 8′s passing created a lot of heated debates and angry protests, as well it ought.  I mean, this whole idea of gay marriage is throwing a HUGE wrench inside the institution of marriage and, well, the dinosaurs aren’t just stepping aside.  The religious right are coming out in full force against gay marriage and, for now, have a small victory.

HOWEVER, the world is changing.  We have a black (or black-African or Black-American or American-African or whatever it’s called today) President, we’ll probably end up with a female Secretary of State (the lovely (ugh) Hillary Clinton) and it’s only a matter of time before there’s even more “allowable” diversity in America, so it’s just a matter of time before the pendulum swings the other way (no pun intended).  Life is too short to fight for something that’s bound to happen very soon, anyway, simply because the world IS changing.

So pack up your protest signs and spread love everywhere you can.  Let the religious freaks do their campaigning and let them develop ulcers; after all, they’re MUCH more worried than you about the outcome.  Just sit back and wait patiently and before you know it, some day soon we’ll all wake up in the proper century.